chaise percée
The verdict
“chaise percée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Siège à l’assise percée qui servait autrefois de lieu d’aisance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaise percée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɛz pɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chaise percée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaise percée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɛz pɛʁ.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chaise percée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaise percée, spelled C-H-A-I-S-E- -P-E-R-C-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Siège à l’assise percée qui servait autrefois de lieu d’aisance.
- 2Chaise métallique munie de roulettes dont l’assise évidée permet aux personnes impotentes, malades, d'uriner ou de déféquer sans avoir à se déplacer.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “chaise percée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-A-I-S-E- -P-E-R-C-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɛz pɛʁ.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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